The story is simple: Richard (Tom Hanks), a mild mannered Violinist is chosen randomly by a fraction of the CIA to represent a significant threat to the director of the CIA, who in turn wants him removed. Of course our heroic violinist doesn't have a clue that he is at the centre of a huge secret service ploy, and so he finds the dead bodies which are piling around him rather unusual. Hilarity ensues. Will our hero get the super agent girl? Will he be able to resist the advances of his best friends wife? Will he be killed by some grey suit?

This was only the third feature film in which Hanks played the male lead after Bachelor Party and Splash and he was still a rather fresh faced actor in his late twenties. His comic energy was certainly much more raw and geared towards slapstick, something that he unfortunately abandoned after Turner & Hooch. At that time he was capable of facial expressions reminiscent of Jim Carrey and his comic timing was impeccable.

His costars are certainly quite impressive: James Belushi as his best friend Morris the percussionist, Carrie Fisher as Belushi's faithless wife Paula, roaming around in jungle stripe underpants and pouncing on the hapless Hanks whenever possible: